Quote: Badge @ July 19 2009, 9:03 PM BSTRun for Yur Life is hideous, especially the lyrics that advocate murder. Someone should tell Lennon to be careful what you wish for.
He later admitted he hated the song. I do like it, but for the music, though.
Oh, and choosing your fave Beatles song is like choosing your favourite child.
A Day in the Life, if forced at gunpoint.
Revolution 9 is something I would always skip. Pointless.
Quote: WrongTale @ July 20 2009, 8:05 AM BSTRevolution 9 is something I would always skip. Pointless.
I did that too, for years, then I started forcing myself to let it play through that track, and now I like it. The only Beatles song I don't like is one of Paul's, *need to go and find out what it's called* *rushes off to Google*
Hold me tight - off the album 'With The Beatles', to my ears McCartney really sounds like he's struggling to sing this one, and it's just too contrived, musically. I wouldn't have put this one out. Hey, but then, nobody asked me, surprisingly!
Fx
Quote: Chappers @ July 19 2009, 11:38 PM BSTMost of Ringo's songs.
Agreed, although Don't Pass Me By is a highlight of the White album.
Quote: Tim Walker @ July 19 2009, 11:28 PM BSTSir Billy Bragg had a song title referencing a sitcom, i.e. Life With The Lyons (which Sir Billy spelt Life With The Lions). I really must get out more.
Lennon had a dreadful avant-garde album out with the very same name in '69, I think that's the right year. Some parts are harrowing, like the heartbeat of the child that miscarried, but it should have remained a personal tape not a public release. I have the opposite prob, Tim, every time I go out people tell me I should stay in more.
Quote: PhQnix @ July 19 2009, 11:49 PM BSTI am spending this week listening to the entire Beatles' back catalogue thanks to this thread. Will report back soon.
You lucky lucky sod. I'll endevour to do the same. Only album I haven't got is the first. I had it on reel-to-reel, original with red label Parlaphone.
Quote: SlagA @ July 20 2009, 12:06 PM BSTI'll endevour to do the same. Only album I haven't got is the first. I had it on reel-to-reel, original with red label Parlaphone.
Have you got all the bootlegs then? The Anthology releases, followed by the advent of Napster, prompted me to download every Beatles bootleg I could find. Some great versions of many songs before 'final takes' and some good stuff that was never released.
Re: the songs tiff - The Beatles sniped amongst each other for a good few years. Apart from verbal swipes, there were also some clever musical references involved.
Harrison's Wah-wah is an early example, where he makes clear the Wah-wah isn't a guitar effect.
Yep, Too Many People, Three Legs, and Dear Boy were the first of Macca's snipes coupled with a photo of two beetles copulating on the Ram cover. Macca's digs were typically concealed in a subtle but sly manner. Lennon understood the sentiments though the message went past many listeners at the time.
Lennon replied with How Do You Sleep?, which was humiliatingly transparent to the world. He reinforced this with a free album postcard of him holding a pig by the ears to imitate (and comment on) the RAM album photo of Macca holding a ram by the horns. The version of How Do You Sleep? on the Imagine film is even more vitriolic. That Harrison and Ringo played on it was possibly more insulting to Macca.
Macca made a concilliatory move on Let Me Roll It - a great song from Band on the Run. Here's a live version ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P2MOrWrsk8 ) At 30 seconds in, there's a great little run.
Lennon clearly understood the olive branch being offered and accepted: as you can hear in Beef Jerky from Walls and Bridges, Lennon's album following Band on the Run. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjteOLCIa-E - Listen to 0:42 on. Lennon uses the same run (as Macca's Let Me Roll It) throughout Beef Jerky. It's also an instrumental, which is a) a clever way to echo the sentiments of Let Me Roll It where Macca says he has no words to explain how he feels and b) Lennon kinda says the war of words is ended.
The Let Me Roll It run is in turn lifted from Lennon's awesome Cold Turkey so that Lennon would realise the song was a message aimed for him. Lennon himself most likley thought so too, as Cold Turkey -> Let Me Roll It -> Beef Jerky. The rhyming of CT with BJerky seems too neat and Lennon loved playing with words.
Apart from colluding in How Do You Sleep?, it is thought that Ringo (more than Harrison, who was equally as angry with Macca as Lennon) was the person who advised John to tone down the rehearsal version to the still bile-filled album version. Luckily, Lennon paid heed. Ringo did a charming and very witty non-snipe called Early 1970 from the Don't Come Easy sessions. Each verse dealing with his pals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTqQ_uxR42I Good ol' Ringo - Love and peace indeed.
Quote: Kenneth @ July 20 2009, 12:19 PM BSTHave you got all the bootlegs then? The Anthology releases, followed by the advent of Napster, prompted me to download every Beatles bootleg I could find. Some great versions of many songs before 'final takes' and some good stuff that was never released.
Sour Milk Sea is awesome - What's the New Mary Jane is cool although I wish Yoko would belt up - And many of Harrison's songs from All Things Must Pass were given short thrift by L and M, despite holding their own against any other new Beatles' song during rehearsal sessions.
Got a lot of boots, still looking for more, mainly interested in unreleased rather than alternate takes. Although alternate takes around 66-68 are staggering, in that they show how a simple arrangement evolved into a complex masterpiece.
Quote: Linda La Hughes @ July 20 2009, 4:40 AM BSTBack in the USSR
Forgot that one. 
Currently listening to The Beatles. Can't decide on a favourite though. But I do prefer their more earlier stuff they released like Help! and so on.
I've always been a big fan of "I'm Looking Through You." The whole of Sgt Peppers is amazing.
Quote: hotzappa11 @ July 20 2009, 2:05 PM BST"I'm Looking Through You."
I'm adding that to mine.
It does surprise me how highly Sergeant Pepper is considered. To my mind only about half of it is listenable.
I'm going to play it now, to see if my ears agree.
You know I used to listen to a Beatles' album, rate the songs according to a marking method I constructed, then make a graph showing how my interest varied through all the albums by each minute, the highs and lows. It was only years later I realised what the behaviour was indicative of. That and the fact that I was so insular even my mother had forgotten she'd had me.
Jealous Guy isn't thought to be a Lennon v Macca swipe but rather a continuation of the Run for your Life theme, it makes more sense after the violence against women revelations and hints.
Whereas Macca would construct a safe and distant fictional world to do his confessionals, Lennon was far more visceral and readily identifiable in his own autobiographical snapshots.
The Word should also be added to my faves.
Doctor Robert is a good Beatles song also from Revolver. I really like the 'Well well well' bit.
Hey Jude. Mainly for the end.
Quote: chipolata @ July 20 2009, 5:05 PM BSTHey Jude. Mainly for the end.
Na.
